City restaurateurs aren’t looking forward to wage hike

Chaos ⭕and outrage will be on the menu at many Big Apple restaurants starting Saturday.

That’s whenꦗ the city’s minimum wage jumps 22 percent, to $11 an hour.

At Heartland Brewery, the dishwashers, most of whom earn minimum wage, will get the mandated r🔴aise.

But because of🐼 razor-thin margins, the increase will not be given to hig💛her-paid staff, the owner, Jon Bloostein, told The Post.

That will put the dishwashers’ pay in line with more senior line cooks — and thﷺat will cause lots of pain and anger in the kitchen, Bloostein said.

“It completely 🐲screws us up,” Bloostein, the founder and chief executive of Blue Stein Group, which owns four Heartland brew pubs and four other eateries.

Wit😼h just dishwashers, which represent 15 percent of his employees, getting a raise, it’s “just a matter of weeks before our other employees’ pay goes up because a cook doesn’t want to earn what a dishwasher makes,” he said.

Bloostein said he can’t raise his menu prices enough to cover his increased costs and is ♉instead pinning his hopes on the city overturning a 40-year-old rule that prohibits restaurants from adding an administrative fee.

“It’s just this antiquated rule,” said Andrew Rigie, executive director of the NYC Hospitality 📖Alliance, which has been lobbying City Hall for 18 months — so far unsuccessfully — to꧙ overturn the rule.

Some restaurants want to charge diners a 4 percent fee for their increased labor costs, while others want to eliminate tipping and add a 20 pe༒rcent fee to cover the ♈wage hikes.

Last year, tipped w𒀰orkers got a 50 percent pay increase in New York, to $7.5♌0 an hour.

At Apple-Metro Inc., which operates 38 Applebee’s in the metro area, tꦺhe pay raises have resulted in a leaner✱ staff.

“We ꩵare about 700 employees skinnier now than we were a year ago,” said CEO Zane Tankel, who laid off those workers from his 3,500-person payroll when last year’s wage hike hit — and may have to swing the layoff ax again.